Desperate need for more resources to help those suffering

IT IS reported that five per cent of people in Australia may not have adequate access to sufficient food for a healthy active life, this is alarming.

Groups known to suffer are homeless (over 100,000 in this group), indigenous people, drug affected and those on low incomes.

Amongst those at risk are young people, elderly, disabled and immigrants and their families. In a country that professes to be the wealthy country, this is a tragedy experienced in Third World nations, not Australia.

Basic rights under international law, states that ready access to safe and affordable food supply is a human right.

We have kids going to school without breakfast because some lack money to buy lunch and in the worst scenario there are kids given paper to suck on because parents lack the resources to feed them properly.

Yet we dump millions of tonnes of food every month which is carted off to local tips.

There are households in which children's food intake has been reduced to the extent that they are forced to experience the physical sensation of hunger.

The pressure of modern life is increasing with cost of living, fuel, power, food, clothing rents and others are driving people to cut back on essentials.

While our own people suffer under the noses of our well-fed politicians who provide assistance in foreign aid to nations that hate us.

As a nation we rush to help others that suffer climate catastrophes, drought-ridden farmers, bushfire victims, and flood victims surely we can extend a helping hand to our own people suffering hunger or food supply shortages?